In 3013, the fire monster Flamo, who told Bender that, a billion years prior, he attempted to overthrow the democratically elected aldermen from his district, but was captured and imprisoned, started a fire in the Planet Expressheadquarters, as part of a plot to become supreme alderman of Earth. [7ACV18] The mystic aldermen then appeared as if by magic in the Planet Express sub-basement, and took Flamo back.